Using puppetry and shadow images, Redmoon explores one man's struggle during the Great Depression.
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Redmoon's prop- and puppet-heavy spectacles are always lovely, and not always cohesive. But according to critics, its latest show weds visual innovation to heart-ache and truth. This Depression-era tale about a vagabond alcoholic, his devastated wife, and their buried child has a sentimental plot, but director Frank Maugeri keeps things rooted in humanity, and dirt. (Dirt is a theme, a major prop, and comprises much of the set.) More critical praise goes, as usual, to the exquisite design elements and to Charles Kim’s eerie, live-piano score.
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